for some men live in darkness

closing sequence from

georg wilhelm pabst's the three penny opera, 1931

music by kurt weill from the play by bertolt brecht

cinematography by fritz arno wagner

related business:

(cds):

-lotte lenya sings kurt weill's the seven deadly sins & berlin theatre songs

(lenya's 1957 recordings of sins and 1955 recording sings berlin theatre songs)
-lotte lenya sings weill, the american theatre songs (recorded in the late 1950s)
-kurt weill - from berlin to broadway
(lotte lenya, harald palsen, bertolt brecht, theo mackeben, otto klemperer, walter huston, gertrude lawrence, danny kaye, mary martin, kenny baker, maurice abravanel)
-die dreigroschenoper (the three penny opera)
(lotte lenya, recorded at afifo studio, tempelhof berlin 1958)
-kurt weill: die dreigroschenoper (the threepennyopera), historische originalaufnahmen 1928-1931
(lotte lenya, carola neher, lys gauty, odette florelle, harald paulsen, kurt gerron, lewis ruth band, otto klemperer, theo mackeben)

(lps)

-kurt weill's der jasager (an opera in two acts based upon an ancient japanese nōh play)
(text by bert brecht)

-lotte lenya sings berlin theatre songs by kurt weill
(with texts by bert brecht and georg kaiser)

fritz arno wagner, cinematographer & 13 stills from mabuse

fritz arno wagner (1894-1958)

key cinematographer of the german expressionist movement, wagner worked most notable with directors f.w. murnau, g.w. pabst and fritz lang. wagner received his training from the academy of fine arts in paris, then went on to work at pathe film company as a clerk.
his most noteworthy contributions can be seen in murnau's nosferatu, pabst's die liebe der jeanne ney and die 3groschenoper, and lang's destiny, spione, m and das testament des dr. mabuse.
"but it was in the portrayal of horror that the camera of murnau and fritz arno wagner excelled" the haunted screen by lotte eisner
the influence of wagner's camera can seen notably in american film noir with its fascination with blackness (lack of light, the obsession with night), the visual influence and use of modernist architecture in film, and the persistent depiction and glorification of vice and sin.

das testament des dr. mabuse 1933
(d. fritz lang):

13 stills from the opening sequence of fritz lang's das testament des dr. mabuse (at the forger's factory)
a beautiful early example of film noir. the pulsing drone soundtrack is also very unique, the other 2 films i immediately think of which feature such an intense audio abstraction are: the beginning of peckinpah's the getway and lynch's eraserhead.

some films:
-schloß vogeloed 1921 (d. f.w. murnau)
-der müde tod 1921 aka destiny (d. fritz lang)
-de brennende acker 1922 aka burning soil (d. f.w. murnau)
-nosferatu, eine symphonie des grauens 1922 (d. f.w. murnau)
-die liebe der jeanne ney 1927 (d. georg wilhelm pabst)
-spione 1928 (d. fritz lang)
-tagebuch einer verlorenen 1929 aka diary of a lost girl (d. georg wilhelm pabst)
-westfront 1918 1930 (d. georg wilhelm pabst)
-die 3groschenoper 1931 (d. georg wilhelm pabst)
-m 1931 (d. fritz lang)
-kameradschaft 1931 aka comradeship (d. georg wilhelm pabst)
-das testament des dr. mabuse 1933 (d. fritz lang)
-der mann, der sherlock holmes war 1937 (d. karl hartl)